Metals, Minerals, and Society
IRELAND M e l a n e s i a n t r e n c h SOLOMON SEA PLATE AUSTRALIAN PLATE 150° E 155° E 160° E 10° E 5° E FIGURE 1. Tectonic setting of Bougainville and neighboring islands of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Metal endowment of major deposits was calculated from resource and/or pro-duction data. Modified from figure 2 of Holm et ...